Famous People with Name Dionne

Dionne Quan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dionne Quan: Quan, a Chinese American, was born in Benicia, California to Lori and Daryl Quan. She is legally blind, having been born with optic hyperplasia. Her acting scripts are written in Braille for her. She obtained her first voice work at the age of 14 for television commercials.She is the voice of Kimi Finster, a character from the cartoon television show Rugrats and All Grown Up!. She was first introduced in the second Rugrats movie, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. She is the youngest actor in the cast. She also has a regular role on The Fairly OddParents (as Trixie Tang) and Lilo & Stitch: The Series (as Noviz (Experiment 587)). In 2005, she starred as Yasmin in a show for 4Kids Entertainment called Bratz.

Dionne Warwick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dionne Warwick: is an acclaimed five-time Grammy Award-winning singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian.

Dionne Farris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dionne Farris: is an American female R&B/soul musician who sang on three songs with the hip hop group Arrested Development.[2] In 1995, she had a solo hit single called "I Know," which hit number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for the Grammy Award for B

Amable Dionne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Amable Dionne: was a businessman, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada and Canada East.He became a clerk for Pierre Casgrain, a merchant at Rivière-Ouelle, and, in 1811, was made a partner in the business. In the same year, he married Catherine Perreault, the niece and daughter by adoption of the local seigneur, Jacques-Nicolas Perrault. In 1818, he established his own business. Dionne served in the local militia, reaching the rank of major. He purchased the seigneuries of La Pocatière and Grande-Anse during the 1830s. In 1830, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Kamouraska; he was reelected in 1834. He supported the Ninety-Two Resolutions but did not support the rebellion that followed. Dionne was named to the Legislative Council in 1837 and then served as a member of the Special Council after the suspension of the constitution.

Charles-Eugène Dionne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles-Eugène Dionne: was a Social Credit Party and Ralliement créditiste member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Saint-Pascal, Quebec and became a lumberjack in his youth. Years later he became a labour representative, eventually leading a chapter of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. He was first elected at the Kamouraska riding in the 1962 general election and was re-elected there for successive terms until the 1974 election. Ridings were redistributed for the 1979 federal election, and Dionne was defeated by Rosaire Gendron of the Liberal party at the new Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup riding. Dionne was also unable to unseat Gendron in the 1980 federal election. Dionne served consecutive terms from the 25th to the 30th Canadian Parliaments, remaining with the Social Credit party, which became known as the Ralliement créditiste from 1963 to 1971.

Marcel Dionne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marcel Dionne: was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Saint-Victor-de-Tring, Quebec and became a businessman by career.He won the Chicoutimi electoral district in the 1979 federal election and was re-elected there in 1980. Dionne was defeated in the 1984 election by André Harvey of the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 31st and 32nd Canadian Parliaments.

Ludger Dionne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ludger Dionne: was a Canadian businessman and a politician, who represented the electoral district of Beauce in the Canadian House of Commons from 1945 to 1949.He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1945 election. When faced with a worker's strike in his rayon mill in 1947, Dionne went to Poland and "hired" 100 Polish Catholic women and emigrated them to Canada to work as either nuns or to work in his rayon mill. During his visit to Poland, he was interviewed by Will Lang Jr. of Life and discussed with Lang his intentions. When Dionne returned to Canada, the striking workers protested to the Canadian government about the immigrants stealing their jobs.

Élisée Dionne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Élisée Dionne: was a Canadian provincial politician. Born in Kamouraska, Lower Canada, Dionne was a member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Grandville from 1867 to 1892.